— Undefeated boxer Dustin Fleischer had a second bar mitzvah on Masada during a Birthright Israel trip. Fleischer, nicknamed “The White Tiger,” was part of an Aug. 10-21 Birthright Israel trip sponsored by the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey, based in the central part of the state. He is the grandson of a…
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops rescued a group of haredi Orthodox Jews who attempted to visit Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus. Two of the some 60 Jewish pilgrims who visited the holy site overnight Tuesday were injured by Palestinian rock throwers. Half of the Jewish visitors, members of the Breslover movement of…
— London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a European capital city, has been bombarded with anti-Semitic messages since he said he would not support Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election. Several of the messages suggested that he had been influenced by Jews, the London-based news website Jewishnews.uk reported. The mayor…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio reportedly decried the BDS movement as not “consistent with progressive values in a speech at a prominent Long Island synagogue. “There are plenty of people who support BDS who have advanced degrees and who call themselves progressives,” de Blasio said to the congregants of Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach,…
The Trump family consistently hid its German ancestry from customers and investors when it was building its New York real estate empire in the post-World War II era, according to an article in The New York Times. After the death of Friedrich Trump — Donald’s grandfather — the family regularly claimed that it hailed from…
— Anti-Semitic graffiti has appeared for the fifth time this month at one of the busiest intersections in the Chinatown section of Washington, DC. Earlier this month, vandals repeatedly painted the word “Jew” on the images of rats appearing on an outdoor Chinese Zodiac public art display. On Monday, swastikas were discovered painted on the…
At the peak of a searing summer, Palestinians living in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank are suffering from severe water shortages, prompting a war of words between Palestinian and Israeli officials over who is responsible. The Palestinians say Israel is preventing them from accessing adequate water at an affordable price, and point out that…
Overnight, forces seized 22 weapon manufacturing machines, dozens of weapons & arrested 2 dealers in Judea & Samaria — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August 23, 2016 (JTA) — Israeli security forces shut down six illegal weapons manufacturing plants in the West Bank in what a senior officer said was among the biggest such operations yet in an ongoing…
— A senior Paris rabbi defended a string of controversial municipal bans in France on wearing publically the full-body swimsuit known as burkini. Moshe Sebbag, the rabbi of the Grand Synagogue of Paris, told JTA Tuesday he supported in principle the regulations adopted earlier this month in 15 French municipalities, including the famed beach resort Cannes,…
– The president of Hungary’s main Jewish umbrella organization, Mazsihisz, has returned a high state award to protest the same award being presented to a nationalist journalist described as racist and anti-Semitic. In a Facebook post, Andras Heisler, who is also a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, said he was returning the Knight’s…
An instructor at Missouri State University has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Jewish retired professor by stabbing him to death in his living room in front of his wife, reported the News-Leader. Police arrested Edward M. Gutting, 43, after he reportedly killed Marc Cooper, 66, a professor emeritus of history at Missouri State University…
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